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ROYGBIV (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet) is an excellent acronym that helps you remember the colours in the rainbow. Without its use, certain shades are forgotten. More time often than not, it is indigo: a colour that is not quite blue and not quite purple. In today\u2019s blog, we\u2019ll talk about this penultimate arc on the rainbow and its place in the colour spectrum<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What Is Indigo?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Coming from the Latin for Indian, this colour has a blue-ish purple hue. Named not because of the shade but because of the dye, the colour was exported originally from India. The dye is created naturally. By crushing the leaves of the indigofera<\/em> plant, the colour is then fermented in water. Mixing these leaves with lye is the next step in the process. Then, pressing the leaves into cakes, drying, and finally powdering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac Newton named the hue as one of the prismatic colours of light and it still has a place in the optical spectrum today. However, modern day research has gathered that what Newton thought of as blue was a more aqua colour. It is believed that they colour he called indigo is what we might describe as blue. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Different Tones<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Distinguishing between different shades is often a difficult task especially between blue, indigo, and violet. What\u2019s more, there are five major tones of this illusive colour:<\/p>\n\n\n\n